Asura Emperor Venerable
Chapter 275: Groping

Chapter 275: Chapter 275: Groping

Shi Hao had been through such situations more than once.

There are three kinds of people in the world, men, women, and women who face Shi Hao.

So, Shi Hao also gave a slight smile, "Okay!"

Instantly, the four women all revealed smiles as if they had won a great victory, while the five men looked at Shi Hao with dark gazes, their expressions extremely hostile, as if blaming him for not refusing.

In their team, there was a woman with a Fire Spirit Root, but she was unremarkable in appearance. That’s probably why they could be so "adamant" about inviting Shi Hao into the team.

Otherwise, given the dominance of Martial Artists with Fire Spirit Roots, even if the four women liked Shi Hao, it would be impossible for them to go against their wishes and invite him.

"My name is Wang Hui."

"I’m Yi Rong."

"Han Feifei."

"Zhao Tian."

The four female Martial Artists introduced themselves in turn; the short-haired beauty was Zhao Tian, who with her baby fat indeed looked a bit sweet.

After chatting with them, Shi Hao learned that all nine of them were from Hanbian City.

Yao Clan was the leading family of Hanbian City with a Self-Observation powerhouse at its helm. The Wang, Yi, Han, and Zhao families were vassals of the Yao Family, and they had all come with the Yao Family to excavate the ancient city this time.

Now, without any findings, they had ended up in this situation, which made them feel very wronged.

As for the other five men, they showed no interest in introducing themselves, so Shi Hao was even less inclined to ask.

"Which way should we go now?" Wang Hui asked.

"Just pick one."

"It’s best to choose one that no one has walked through."

"Mm!"

The crowd deeply agreed. Under the current circumstances, anything that could restrain their instinctual nature had disappeared. Therefore, bumping into another strong team in the cave might end up getting them all killed.

They chose an untraveled cave and filed in.

Because the person with the Fire Spirit Root had to walk in front, Yi Rong led the way, followed by the other three females, then Shi Hao, and finally, the five men.

These five young men all felt exceptionally disgruntled as they watched Shi Hao’s tall figure.

——Shi Hao didn’t do anything, yet he had four female companions looking after him with care and concern. In contrast to their treatment, it was like being in two different worlds.

As they walked, they became more and more distant from the underground lake they had left behind, and they no longer heard other sounds.

Yi Rong could not project her Soul Power externally, and since she was only at the Soul Nurturing realm, she couldn’t use Dark Force either. Thus, the area she could illuminate was limited, only able to keep a radius of three feet around her lit.

If she pushed her limits, she could light up a slightly larger area, but that would significantly increase the consumption of her Soul Power. Since they didn’t know how long they had to walk here, it was natural to save energy.

But after half an hour, Yi Rong couldn’t keep going, and everyone sat down to rest.

Suddenly, it was pitch-black all around.

"Ah—" Zhao Tian suddenly let out a cry of alarm.

Yi Rong quickly condensed Fire Element again, bang, the flames reappeared, illuminating the surroundings.

"What’s the matter?" everyone asked.

Zhao Tian blushed furiously, her anger mixed with embarrassment. Under persistent questioning, she finally said, "Someone just touched my butt!"

The three other female Martial Artists were indignant at this, and the five men became even more agitated, almost hopping mad.

Zhao Tian was the prettiest among the four women and also admired by the five men. Hearing that she had been touched on the butt was like being given a conspicuous cap to wear on their heads. How could they not be enraged?

"Who, who did it?" they all demanded.

"Was it you?" someone suddenly pointed the finger at Shi Hao.

"It must be you!" another person shouted, pointing at Shi Hao, "You were right behind Zhao Tian, it must have been you!"

"Despicable guy! We kindly took you in, and you repay us with betrayal, I’ve never seen someone as ungrateful as you."

The five men had already taken a disliking to Shi Hao, and now that they found an outlet for their frustrations, they immediately began their verbal and written onslaught against him, without so much as a second thought.

However, compared to the righteous indignation of these five men, Zhao Tian’s face turned red with bashfulness; but this time there was only shyness and no anger, as she fiddled with her fingers and said, "Let it go, let it go, maybe I overreacted and had a misperception."

Damn it!

This statement made the five men even angrier. Damn, they knew it might have been Shi Hao who did it, and they weren’t even going to pursue it?

Just because someone is good-looking... does that really mean they can do whatever they want?

"No, we can’t let him off so easily!"

"Right, he harassed Zhao Tian now, and next he might go after Han Feifei and the others."

"We have to drive him away!"

The men shouted in unison, determined not to let the matter slide.

Han Feifei and the other two women blushed at once, wondering if they would be touched too?

Oh, how exciting!

Shi Hao finally spoke up, "Why do you all assume it was me when the truth hasn’t come to light yet?"

He would not accept being splashed with dirty water.

"You were the closest, and it was so dark just now, if not you, then who else could have done it?" the man in the green clothes yelled.

Shi Hao smiled, "This passageway is quite wide. Anyone could have come up close. And besides, I remember when the fire reignited just now, you were sitting right next to me, weren’t you?"

Hearing this, Zhao Tian’s face paled.

Could it be that the person who touched her was not Shi Hao but Wu Zi’an?

Suddenly, she felt goosebumps all over her body, along with a nauseating feeling of wanting to vomit.

Wu Zi’an immediately jumped to his feet, saying, "Don’t you slander me! It was clearly you who did it, and now you’re playing the victim!"

"Zhao Tian, do you really trust an outsider and not believe me?" He then looked at Zhao Tian, with a face full of sincerity.

Zhao Tian hadn’t even said a word when suddenly the surroundings went pitch dark again.

"I’ve used up too much of my Soul Power," Yi Rong said, a bit embarrassed.

"No worries."

"You’ve just started Soul Nurturing, your soul’s strength is definitely not strong enough."

"You should rest well."

Everyone quickly offered words of comfort.

As the environment returned to darkness, everyone soon quieted down again. It was too dark to even see faces, so throwing accusations wasn’t forceful enough, and fighting was out of the question. In such darkness, any fight would definitely be a mess.

Rustle, rustle, rustle, but shortly after, an odd sound came through.

"What’s that noise?" Everyone tensed up.

The sound was faint, but extremely discomforting to the ears.

Yi Rong once again forcefully gathered the Fire Element, and boom, the light reappeared.

"Ah!" Han Feifei immediately screamed and leaped up.

Everyone inhaled sharply, as beneath her rear, there was a nest of maggots, pale and indescribably disgusting.

A few men rushed over and stomped on the maggots several times, crushing them to death.

"Why would there be maggots here?"

"There would only be maggots if there was a corpse."

"But even if there were corpses, this place has been sealed for thousands of years. How could they appear from nowhere?"

Even if there were a mass grave below, after thousands of years, not to mention that the corpses would have dried up or decomposed to the point where even the bones would disintegrate, if they didn’t decay, wouldn’t they have been eaten away by maggots long ago?